Andy Furillo

Andy Furillo is a former California newspaper reporter who spent 26 years at the Sacramento Bee after previous stints with the San Francisco Examiner, the Los Angeles Herald Examiner, the Los Angeles Times, the Santa Maria Times, the Santa Barbara News-Press, the Goleta Valley Today and the Southeast News in Downey. Furillo won several national awards for his reporting, including the Heywood Broun Award, the Harry Chapin Media Award for newspapers, the Al Nakkula Award for Police Reporting, the Capitolbeat Award for single report, and the Lincoln University of Missouri Award for public affairs/social issues. He left the newspaper business in 2017 and began writing fiction. In 2018, he self-published "The First Year," his take on Sacramento in the era of Trump. He had a nonfiction book published in 2016 on The Santa Monica Press about his father -- "The Steamer: Bud Furillo and the Golden Age of L.A. Sports." He is married, has a grown son, and lives in Davis, Calif., where he likes to drink local beer, play guitar, go see live music, and catch an occasional baseball or college football game.